Activities
Chocolate Chip Cookies. If you'd think there's going to be a picture to accompany this, you'd be wrong. That's because most of them went in the garbage. Apparently you have to update your baking soda every once in awhile. I think the baking soda I used has been with me since Provo--six years ago.
But Talmage loved mixing the dough. Still a success.
Countdown to Valentine's Chain. You know, not enough people countdown to Valentine's. This chain kicked of a chain of Valentine's preparation events including the homemade production of roughly 80 Valentine's cards.
Okay, this isn't really the chain we made. But we cut apart the chain before we took a picture of it, so I'm including a picture of this infinitely cuter chain.
Cheetah. All right, so I took the picture before I got his ears attached. Whoops.
I wasn't TOTALLY certain of the base color of the cheetah, so we looked online. Tal wanted to be very certain we got the precise yellowish brown color. Then we improvised the rest of the cheetah. With googly eyes, of course.
Choo Choo Train
This was a fun activity in the properties of different paints and painting strategies. We used your standard tempera paint for the trains, using a single stroke for the cars, Donald Crews style. For the wheels we spun the brush. For the smoke, we played with watercolors, painting first with water and then dabbing the pigment.
Tal got really interested in why different paints worked differently, so we had a discussion about pigment and binder.
Treasure hunt. chair, church, checkbook, chain, cheese. The treat was chocolate covered raisins.
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